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World's 'Policeman' Is Uneasy With Its Role

Updated Oct. 27, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Daniel Henninger's summary ("General Sanchez's Scream," Wonder Land, Oct. 18) of media coverage of Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez was moving, but incomplete. The general's "nightmare" was to be sent into conflict by an administration then not receive public support for soldiers' sacrifice. Why?

Everything started so well. Aren't there frequent calls for the world's policeman (the U.S) to "clean up" certain trouble spots? In the years just before 9/11, there were universal condemnations of Taliban destruction...